But this much-maligned fruit (a particular sort of semi-dried plum) has a great deal more going for it than you might expect – a rounded, deeply fruity flavour and a particular affinity with dark spirits such as brandy or rum.
The latter mostly manifests itself in him spending too much time at bars late at night as you might expect, this part is also deeply depressed and vaguely inclined toward suicide.
It doesn't seem inappropriate to comment on their appearance, since the image is reflected in their playing: it's technically accomplished, easy on the ears and yet somehow not as deeply engaging as one might expect.
A New Yorker might expect that most of the people at Target Field on Wednesday night left deeply disappointed, given that the Minnesota Twins had been toppled — just like last year — by the Yankees.
Given the Quality Lit ambitions Mr. Moody bared in "The Ice Storm" and "Purple America" — and given that his 2002 memoir, "The Black Veil," found him deeply enmeshed in French literary theory — a loyal reader might expect a book of this heft to amount to a dense experimental fiction or a Vonnegutian exercise in wild satire.
As you might expect, our reactions and counter-reactions to each other only served to amplify and more deeply entrench ourselves in these feelings.
And you can tell from the way she talks about food that she's deeply connected to it -- something that's not as common as you might expect in these books.
Moody it was, mostly in the best sense: deeply sad, frustrated, wistful, joyous, expressive of a wider range of emotions than you might expect from a tap showcase.
In his sermon, Dr Williams said: "There is plenty to suggest that younger people, while still statistically deeply unlikely to be churchgoers, don't have the hostility to faith that one might expect, but at least share some... sense that there is something here to take seriously - when they have a chance to learn about it.
